Well, young man; my earlier posts on these very topics would have explained to you that 1: I am Black myself, and 2) I personally think we shouldn't even use words such as these, even among ourselves.
We denigrate ourselves by using phrases such as these. This is the thing that many Blacks cannot understand. This is what keeps many in the ghetto, on welfare, from broken homes; and many other ills of our society. We constantly drive these terms of "inadequacy" into ourselves because we think that it is okay, but it really isn't.We even delude ourselves by thinking that these terms have legitimacy coming from another Black- another fallacy!
Why would you even want to use or be referred to in such terms? These terms come from back in the slave days."Nigger" was how our ancestors were classified. "My nigger" showed ownership of the slave.
As far as the Bounty Hunter episode, what is the "free pass" you speak of? His words were distasteful; but not illegal. The only thing that could happen to him probably already is. His shows ratings are dropping like a rock. He can't be charged with any crime.
I don't believe that I have any such grey area with this topic. I don't use such phrases and don't want them used around me- Black or otherwise. I raise my son with that very same idea; and I wouldn't hesitate for one minute to break my foot off in his rear end if he ever utters such blasphemy in my presence.

Dude we have more in common than you realize. I faced much more adversity in my own young life growing up in the projects surrounded by "my people" than I have as an adult living among white people.

If black people don't want to ever hear the N" word uttered, then we ought never use it ourselves. How can we tell others to STFU if we don't STFU ourselves? That's bullshit.

Since I haven't listened to rap since it made the dark turn it made in the late 80's, I guess you might accept what it has become. But when I listened to rap, it was happy and enjoyable to listen to. Then it became an advertisement to all the things someone owns and all the women he is "hittin'". Like I care. RnB is depressing as well with all the cheating, loss, and endorsed promiscuousness.

That's very productive you would recommend my to turn off the radio than admit that we have a problem in the media marketed to us.

I disagree, I think something said to a family member should remain as such. If the man has never done anything publicaly "racist" as old as he is that we have discovered, I don't think he is racist. If he didn't want his son to bring a black woman into his circle where he admits they use the "N' word, that's his right. I've made disparaging comments about many different people in the company of my family, I'd hope they weren't recording it for later use.

I find that the problem with what Dog the Bounty Hunter said was that it was in private. Isn't any one here going to own up to what they know is the problem with racism in America? The reason we have racism here, beyond the slavery of our past, is that it is born in the privacy of our homes. How many times has someone in your family said something in private that you never hear them say in public? That is how it works. Parents speaking that way in front of their kids is probably the main cause of racism in their kids. If that is what he says is private, you can bet that is how he really feels. He has just been exposed in the light of day. People who do this in private know that it's wrong, or else they would have no problem saying it outloud.

I think that chastising this man for something that he did in th privacy of his own home also perpetrates racism. It ain't like black people don't say seriously f'd up things about white people in the privacy of their homes. Black comedians have built entire careers on it.
We all have some prejudices. Beating someone down for something done at home won't solve the problem. It may even make it worse.

I don't think it matters what race is bashing the other, only that it all comes out of the home.

In the case of Dog, the minister that married him was black, and in the context of what he was talking and who he was talking to, I don't have a problem with it.
If he had shown some sign of racism before this, we might have a case. But a guy that knows he does something in private that is socially unacceptable has a right to "do" that. The man was protecting himself and those that work for him. Whoever taped the conversation should be arrested for invading his privacy.

I never watched his show. So I can't comment on who he arrested.

But if bounty hunters have any pf the same powers of police, when a person decides to jump bail, they endanger everyone they associate with. From bounty hunter to police, they are all loose cannons.

I agree with some of the conversation here, I also disagree with most. I'm not giving someone a "free-pass" or let them off the hook because something they said was done in privacy and someone let the cat out the bag and turned state...ask former President Clinton about that little mishap.
My point that I was trying to make here, and the point that I am trying so desperately across is racism is racism. It doesn’t matter how minute or inadvertent the message, if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck...it’s a duck.
If I call white people cracka, if I make comments about "the man" holding me down, I’m racist. If he says he refers to them as niggas and he admits using the word, obviously he sees blacks as somewhat inferior just by using the word, he might be a subtle racist or use racist terms. That’s a racist in my book. Sorry. Its pretty clear cut on how he feels and how and what he calls black people. Now tell me, is this not racism, or am I just too sensitive?